Another forgotten storythread ..
Hmm .. *rants*
It seems Funcom is forgetting about the threads they start spinning. Quite an amount of months ago, I was a clan leader. When the Radiman clone asassination happened, people was happy (although perhaps not in-character) because something was happening. There was some sort of lasting storyplot from Funcom back in the game, so people started wondering about what had happened, who did the killings, etc. It had an impact on the politics in the game as well, and a lot took the opportunity to spin the Radiman clone's death into their own storylines with their own tales of whodunnits and whys. In the end, there were a damned lot of conflicting versions of the murder, but somehow, Funcom never seemed to catch up on all the su****ion and investigation. When Henry showed up to clean the team moat, people had mostly gotten bored with the thing, but some of us still wondered if it really was Radiman or if it was the clone that showed up and so on .. Sadly, when Funcom seemed to drop the story about Radiman and noone got to find any clues relating to the murder or who actually got killed and so on, people got tired and forgot about it. Radiman never showed up after the moat cleaning anyway ..
Then the Dust Brigade came. Just like before, people think "Yes! A lasting new storyplot from Funcom!". Suddenly, brigadeers were there to kill clan leaders and attack the omni and do general havoc in Tir and so on .. It had a major impact on politics, clans started arguing and splitting up in more alliances than before, people started investigating Dust Brigade, hoping to find them or some secret base .. Scouts were sent out lots of times to trace the vapor trails that appeared in the skies and people were generally happy something was going on. (Although again, I might add, not necessarily in-character) ..
What happens? The Dust Brigade disappears .. There are no clues because Funcom weren't planting any. People got tired of it, the dust brigade don't show up anymore. All the players are left with is disappointment.
I could say the same thing about Yxxil the marauder, but he didn't really have the impact the brigadeers had.
It makes me pissed to see Funcom throw away their own agendas like that. People expect more .. They should expect that if the dust brigade shows up, they're there .. a part of the story they can take a stand for or against. A mystery to unveil. If you ask me, Funcom should damned well take a lot more care to follow up on what they start.
I've been away since may last year .. Now I'm back, and I really hope things have improved with the storyline and all ..
Well, that's my rant.
Dust Brigade HeadQuarters
Hi again ..
A lot of people were looking for their headquarters. Maybe not a lot of people compared to how many players there actually are, but still .. The sad thing, though, is that I don't think there even is a DB headquarters. I was on an AO-break when they showed up in PW, though .. so perhaps.
Still, it wouldn't surprise me if Dust Brigade to Funcom was just having some ARKs and GMs start firing on people here and there .. Without a base of operations or anything else to tie them to Rubi-Ka as a planet. Thus, there would not be much for people to do with the Dust Brigade threat except for the times they actually showed up.
I hope that's not how it is, but it is what it seemed to me after all the effort we put into the DB investigation ..